KMGH Apologizes for Profane Petraeus Book Cover

KMGH Denver has apologized for showing an image of a doctored book cover making profane light of the David Petraeus-Paula Broadwell snafu. In its 5 p.m. news on Nov. 12, the ABC affiliate showed an image of Broadwell's book, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. But the image, obtained online, had been doctored to read "All Up In My Snatch."

The clip then went viral.

Jeff Harris, KMGH news director, called it "a regrettable and an embarrassing error."

"We have corrected the story to avoid any recurrence of its broadcast," he said. "We are following up internally as well to avoid a repeat of this inexcusable oversight."

Scripps acquired KMGH in the McGraw-Hill acquisition in 2011.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.